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Old 11-27-2012, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by MTI View Post
I was basing my thoughts on the OP's description of the problem, ie. that replay of downloaded video files weren't smooth. If the PC can connect SATA drives, why wouldn't an SSD improve throughput, including start up and file streaming?
Adding an SSD would improve speed. But it would also mask the problem of lacking RAM (Virtual Memory thrashing). An SSD that was constantly being written to, as in the case described, would suffer an early death as well.
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